The Houston Film Critics Society named "Boyhood" the best picture of the year. Richard Linklater also won for best director and screenplay.

The Houston Film Critics Society named "Boyhood" the best picture...

AUSTIN - Richard Linklater remembers being observed. He says his mother, a professor at Sam Houston State University, occasionally enlisted him for some of her studies at the school. And he recalls his fourth-grade class in Huntsville was watched behind a two-way mirror for a research project. Some might have found the practice intrusive, perhaps creepy. Linklater admits it was "a little weird" but says, "ultimately, I liked being a subject."

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